Apple Lets Some of its Big Sur macOS Apps Bypass Firewall and VPNs

From thehackernews.com

Big Sur macOS Apps

Apple is facing the heat for a new feature in macOS Big Sur that allows many of its own apps to bypass firewalls and VPNs, thereby potentially allowing malware to exploit the same shortcoming to access sensitive data stored on users’ systems and transmit them to remote servers.

The issue was first spotted last month by a Twitter user named Maxwell in a beta version of the operating system.

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